Robert Smithson and the American landscape / Ron Graziani.

Main entry:

Graziani, Ron, 1953-

Title & Author:

Robert Smithson and the American landscape / Ron Graziani.

Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Description:

xiv, 219 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Contemporary artists and their critics

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-216) and index.
Grounding art history. -- Blasted landscapes. -- Prospecting for culture: (N)onsite inspections. -- An aesthetic foreman in the mining industry. -- Lunar pastures. -- Nature with class.

Summary:

"Robert Smithson and the American Landscape is a social history of the earthworks and their critical reception. Providing a close analysis of Smithson's own writings and artworks. Ron Graziani demonstrates how his earthworks were part of an aesthetic and civic fault line that ruptured in the 1960s. Smithson's humanized environments were a powerful indictment of the modernist sense of art and nature. Moreover, Graziani shows how Smithson's earthworks formed part of what was called the "new conservationism" in the late 1960s and how they gave material form to the contradictions of a sociological issue that was inseparable from its economic legacy."--Jacket.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

0521827558 (HB)
9780521827553 (HB)

Subject:

Smithson, Robert Criticism and interpretation.
Smithson, Robert, 1938-1973.
Smithson, Robert Critique et interprétation.
Smithson, Robert
Earthworks (Art) United States.
Earthworks (Art) United States History 20th century.
Land art États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Earthworks (Art)
Land art.
Receptie.
United States

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Quotations (texts)
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Contemporary artists and their critics.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room photo 231209
Call No.: TR140.S6645 G7 2004
Status: Available

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